The 2025 Gotham Film Awards are underway, with a star-studded ceremony taking place Monday evening at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
That of Paul Thomas Anderson One battle after another entered this year’s ceremony with a record six nominations, including in the top category of Best Feature Film.
Anderson was also nominated for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor both nominated in Gothams’ gender-neutral category, Best Supporting Performance. Scene stealer Chase Infiniti was nominated for Breakthrough Artist.
In the best features category, One battle after another faces the four-time candidate If I had legs I’d kick you as well as double nominees Familiar touch; Hamnet; Sorry, baby; The Will of Ann Lee; And Form dreamsin addition to Bugonia, east of the wall And Lurker. This year’s Gothams increased the number of Best Feature Film nominees from five to ten.
In addition to the best functionality, If I had legs I’d kick you entered the evening for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (Mary Bronstein) and Lead Performance (Rose Byrne).
Other films receiving multiple nominations include three nominees It was just an accident And No other choice and double nominees The brain, Secret agent And My father’s shadow.
Since 2021, the Gotham Awards have recognized artists in gender-neutral categories.
Recent Gotham Awards winners include Oscar winners No other land, Everything everywhere at once, CODA, Nomadland, Marriage Story, American Factory, Moonlight, Spotlight And Birdman.
In addition to the competitive prizes, a number of films and personalities will receive special tributes.
Noah Baumbach received the director’s tribute for his work on Jay Kellypresented by his co-writers and stars of the Netflix film, Emily Mortimer and Adam Sandler, with Mortimer reading from a prepared script and Sandler interjecting with jokes, including about how he “remembers[s] when the Gotham Awards were reserved for low-budget films”, believing that Jeff Daniels was “paid in potato skins” for Baumbach’s film. The squid and the whale. But the “new Gothams” are “pretty good,” Sandler said, praising the “best desserts.”
Baumbach, who lamented having to follow Mortimer and Sandler, said he found himself in a similar position to his lead character in Jay Kelly, the movie star played by George Clooney, “looking forward and backward at his life.” He recalled advice he received from Ethan Coen, Peter Bogdanovich, Brian De Palma and Mike Nichols and remembered growing up in New York and going to see movies, dreaming of the day he could make movies.
“The thing I’m most proud of is being considered a New York filmmaker,” Baumbach said in part.
The cast of Sinners will receive the overall tribute; Julia Roberts and Luca Guadagnino are set to be honored with the visionary tribute for their work together on After the hunt.
Nia DaCosta and Nina Hoss presented Tessa Thompson with the Spotlight Tribute for HeddaDaCosta and Thompson recalling their first meeting ten years ago, when Thompson said she couldn’t have imagined being in one of DaCosta’s films, and adding that she was “always in awe” of DaCosta’s courage.
FrankensteinGuillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi received the Vanguard tribute, presented by JJ Abrams – as del Toro said his film was made “for humans, by humans” and left the stage with a “fucking AI” microphone. Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman received the first musical tribute for Song sung in blue from director Craig Brewer; and Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper were honored with the Tribute to a Cultural Icon for Springsteen: Deliver me from nowhere by Steven Van Zandt.
It was just an accident Filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the night’s top prize for best original screenplay, just hours after his lawyer announced that Iran had sentenced the Palme d’Or-winning director to a year in prison in absentia. “I would like to dedicate the honor of this award to independent filmmakers from Iran and around the world – filmmakers who keep the camera rolling silently, without support, and sometimes risking everything they have, only with their faith in truth and humanity,” Panahi said through a translator, to applause from the room. “I hope that this dedication will be seen as a small tribute to all the filmmakers who have been deprived of the right to see and be seen, but who continue to create and exist.” He returned to the stage shortly after when It was just an accident won for Best International Feature Film.
Here’s the full list of nominees for this year’s Gotham Film Awards. Winners will be noted as they are announced live. Refresh for the latest news.
Best functionality
Bugonia
Ari Aster, Ed Guiney, Ed Guiney, Lars Knudsen, Jerry Kyungboum Ko, Yorgos Lathimos, Mikiy Lee and Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, producer (Fata Fatoures)
East of the wall
Kate Beecroft, Shannon Moss, Melanie Ramsayer, Lila Yacoub, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Familiar touch
Alexandra Byer, Sarah Friedland, Matthew Thurm, producers (Music Box Films)
Hamnet
Nicolas Gonda, Pippa Harris, Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, producers (Focus Features)
If I had legs I’d kick you
Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle, Conor Hannon, Sara Murphy, Josh Safdie, Ryan Zacarias, producers (A24)
Lurker
Galen Core, Archie Madekwe, Marc Marrie, Charlie McDowell, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky, Olmo Schnabel, Jack Selby, producers (Mubi)
One battle after another
Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, producers (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Sorry, baby
Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, producers (A24)
Ann Lee’s will
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, Joshua Horsfield, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Mark Lampert, Lillian LaSalle, Andrew Morrison, Viktória Petrányi, Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
Form dreams
Michael Heimler, Will Janowitz, Marissa McMahon, Ashley Schlaifer, Teddy Schwarzman (producers) (Netflix)
Best International Feature Film
It was just an accident
Philippe Martin, Jafar Panahi, producers (Neon) (WINNER)
No other choice
Park Chan-Wook, Alexandre Gavras, Michèle Ray Gavras, Back Jisun, producers (Neon)
New wave
Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin, producers (Netflix)
Resurrection
Charles Gillibert, Yang Lele, Shan Zuolong, producers (Janus Films)
Falling sound
Lucas Schmidt, Maren Schmitt, producers (Mubi)
Best Documentary Feature
2000 meters from Andriivka
Mstyslav Chernov, director; Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, producers (PBS)
BLKNWS: General conditions
Khalil Joseph, director; Onye Anyanwu, Kahlil Joseph, David Linde, Anikah McLaren, James Shani, Steven Soderbergh, producers (Rich Spirit)
My Unwanted Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
Julia Loktev, director; Julia Loktev, producer (self-distributed) (WINNER)
The perfect neighbor
Geeta Gandhi, director; Sam Bisbee, Geeta Gandhi, Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, producers (Netflix)
Put your soul on your hand and walk
Sepideh Farsi, director; Javad Djavahery, Sepideh Farsi, producers (Kino Lorber)
Best Director
Marie Bronstein, If I had legs I’d kick you (A24)
Jafar Panahi, It was just an accident (Neon)
Kelly Reichardt, The brain (bad)
Paul Thomas Anderson, One battle after another (Warner Bros. Photos)
Olivier Laxe, Sirat (Neon)
Breakthrough Director
Constance Tsang, Palace of the Blue Sun (Decanal)
Carson Lund, Eephus (Music Box Movies)
Sarah Friedland, Familiar touch (Music Box Movies)
Akinola Davies Jr., My father’s shadow (Mubi) (WINNER)
Harris Dickinson, Sea urchin (1-2 Special)
Best Original Screenplay
If I had legs I’d kick youMarie Bronstein (A24)
It was just an accidentJafar Panahi (Neon) (WINNER)
The secret agentKleber Mendonça Filho (Neon)
Sorry, babyEva Victor (A24)
Falling soundLouise Peter, Mascha Schilinski (Mubi)
Best Adapted Screenplay
No other choicePark Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar (Neon)
One battle after anotherPaul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros. Photos)
Back seatHarry Lighton (A24) (WINNER)
Preparation for the next lifeMartyna Majok (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Form dreamsClint Bentley, Greg Kwedar (Netflix)
Exceptional lead performance
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Targeted features)
Lee Byung-hun, No other choice (Neon)
Rose Byrne, If I had legs I’d kick you (A24)
foothills of Dìrísù, My father’s shadow (Mubi) (WINNER)
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jennifer Lawrence, Die my love (bad)
Wagner Moura, The secret agent (Neon)
Josh O’Connor, The brain (bad)
Amanda Seyfried, Ann Lee’s will (Projector photos)
Tessa Thompson, Hedda (Orion Pictures/Amazon/MGM Studios)
Outstanding supporting performance
Benicio Del Toro, One battle after another (Warner Bros. Photos)
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein (Netflix)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental value (Neon)
India Moore, Father Mother Sister Brother (bad)
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners (Warner Bros. Photos) (WINNER)
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly (Netflix)
Andrew Scott, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alexander Skarsgård, Back seat (A24)
Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental value (Neon)
Teyana Taylor, One battle after another (Warner Bros. Photos)
Revolutionary artist
A$AP Rocky, Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Better yourself, Preparation for the next life (Photos by Orion/Amazon MGM Studios)
Sue Infiniti, One battle after another (Warner Bros. Photos)
Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s story (Kino Lorber) (WINNER)
Tonatiuh, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, LD Entertainment)
